The Ufeful Family Herbal. 109 
Cuckow Frower, or Lapy’s SMock. 
CARDAMINE, 
Very beautiful wild Plant, frequent in our 
Meadows in Spring, and a great Ornament to 
them. It grows a Foot high. The Leaves which 
rife from the Root, are winged very regularly 
and beautifully, and are fpread in a circular Man- 
ner, the Stalk is round, thick, firm, and upright. 
The Leaves that grow on it are fmaller, finely 
divided, and ftand fingly. The Flowers grow in 
a little Clufter, on that Spike on the Top, and 
from the Bottom of the Leaves. They are large, 
of a fine White, often tinged with a Bluth of 
Red. 1S. . 
The Juice of the frefh Leaves is to be ufed; 
it is an excellent Diuretic, and is good in the 
Gravel and all Suppreffions of Urine. It alfo 
opens Obftructions, and is good in the Jaundice and 
Green Sicknefs; and a Courfe of it againft the 
Scurvy. 
CuDWEED, 
| GNAPHALIUM 
A Common wild Plant, but fingular in its Ap- 
| ce. There are many Species of it. 
_ Bur that ufed in Medicine is the kind called the _ 
middle Cudweed, a Herb Impious. It has this _ 
laft name from the whimfical obfervation of the 
young Flowers rifing above the old ones, which 
4s called the Son’s growing above the F ather. 
This Cudweed is a little low Plant, it feldom ri 
